Symmetrization reduction mammaplasty combined with sentinel node biopsy in patients operated for contralateral breast cancer (J. Surg. Oncol. 2006;94:9–15)

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Symmetrization reduction mammaplasty combined with sentinel node biopsy in patients operated for contralateral breast cancer

✍ Peter Schrenk; Soraya Wölfl; Sephan Bogner; Georg Huemer; Wolfgang Wayand 📂 Article 📅 2006 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 106 KB

## Background and objectives: Occult invasive cancer found in reduction mammaplasty specimen in the contralateral breast in breast cancer patients requires axillary lymph node dissection (alnd) to assess the lymph node status. routine sentinel node (sn) biopsy in these patients may avoid secondary